California coastlines – Margy Gates Art

Exploring Southern California’s Beaches and Islands

Exploring Southern California’s Beaches and Islands – book, 120 pages, $18.95

This portrait has a very exciting story behind it. Many came to the gallery in Channel Islands Harbor to hear me

Commissioned for a surfer who surfed this beach for many years and wanted everything to be accurate about how he remembered

The view out my studio window can get very interesting on a holiday weekend. I was intrigued with the shape

This painting is about movement and stability, hard and liquid, transparent and opaque. It also plays with putting the center

I am known for my island and reef paintings, hence the funny name. The rhythms are subtle, the waves break

This is one of my commissioned Boat Portrait Paintings. The owner wanted me to paint the Casino at Catalina Island

Original watercolor Wave Games – 42″w x 20″h, $325 Wave Games – 32″w x 15″h, $185 Wave Games – 26″w

The slow swaying of the kelp create an ever-changing landscape for the many fish of the California kelp garden. Original

This sight awaited me when I came to my studio early one morning. Only very large storms create waves inside

On a spectacular day when the energy from the storm off New Zealand was making waves off the southern coast

This is the fifth in a series of paintings of the Anacapa Arch, which explore the various moods and views

This was the first in a series of Anacapa Arch paintings. Anacapa is the first of four National Park islands